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Ag/NatR Internship:  Natural Resources/Law Enforcement

 

Name:

Major:

Summer:

Jeremy Nguyen

Natural Resources/Law Enforcement

2003

 

 

Place of Employment:

Address:

City:

State/Province:

ZIP/Postal Code:

Company/Org. URL:

 

U.S.A.C.E. Cross Lake Recreation Area

35507 County Rd 66, Box 36

Crosslake

MN

56442

http://www.mvp.usace.army.mil/recreation/default.asp?pageid=63

 

Supervisor/Position:

Phone Number:

Ray Nelson

(218) 692-2025

 

 

Job Title:

Park Ranger

 

 

Job Responsibilities:

Patrolling the park, monitoring the lake level, opening and closing dam gates, checking and recording piezometer levels, reporting weather conditions to the national weather service, sanding and painting picnic tables and benches, answering phones, answering campers and visitors questions, playground equipment inspection, vehicle maintenance, building a new retaining walls, storm clean up, removing dead trees, trimming dangerous tree branches, road and trail maintenance, building maintenance, registering campers and taking fees, taking pictures, putting together a program for monitoring visitor comments, checking electrical boxes, rebuilding horseshoe pits, aiding in implementing and implementing interpretive programs, transporting materials to and from the park, installing split rail fences, aiding in a dam dedication, working with computers, purchasing building materials, patrolling nearby public lake accesses,  removal of garbage from public lake accesses, building interpretive kiosks, painting road arrows, pulling and spraying weeds, and writing parking and tent violations.

 

Summarize Your
Experience:



 

 Over the course of the summer of 2003 I worked for the United States Army Corps of Engineers as a Park Ranger at Cross Lake Recreation area in Crosslake Minnesota. I had a large amount of responsibilities and jobs through which I gained valuable experience and knowledge.

 

What I liked most about
the job:

 

I learned the most from being on the job and experiencing the many responsibilities of being a park ranger.  Much of my experience was gained doing maintenance and helping with interpretive programs.

 

Challenges on the job:

 

 

Some of the things I found challenging about the job were the inability to use some equipment due to lack of training, training that I had to get but that did not apply to me, and at times communicating with management.